It does not matter what position you take on the Left, you are safe and secure. But that is not at all the case for positions that the Right take on. You are not safe and secure, so you travel with bodyguards

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There's absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality.

Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society?

Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic